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Re: productivity time sink & barricades
Vig, re #4, maybe you could set a policy where everyone sets their machines into render nodes when they leave at night. A bit more work since you have to manage the changes since each node of your render farm is being messed with every day. But there's a lot of processing power just idling around. We did that at Mondo when… -
Re: productivity time sink & barricades
Are you using Max? Any machine with Max 8 installed automatically acts as a mental ray satalite node, I'm pretty sure. -
Re: productivity time sink & barricades
Sorry, messed up the link, meant to remove the \download. It's an executable, not a plugin, a separate app that monitors all window events that Max creates. You decide which popups to OK or Cancel through, saves a ton of frustration. Workstations, we used to have to manually click the render node button on each person's… -
Re: productivity time sink & barricades
Yup we use Max8, great ideas guys I'll look into all of that! Looks like I'll be chatting with our network admin, we have a funky set of permissions that are getting in my way. It looks like we might be able to set up a network policy where if someone who has Max installed logs out that workstation gets turned into a node.… -
Re: productivity time sink & barricades
1) Designers who can't make up their mind what to do until the last min which happens to be 3 weeks past their deadline and a solid 1.5 months of bugging, begging and suggesting ideas from the art dept. Only to have them all shot down and being told to wait. Then said designer gives the art team a half baked idea and…
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